“The Green Lemon” – Satiric Play of Meti Karatza

When MCF Coffee | Bar | Resto hosts in it’s turn interesting performances

Meeting point for audience and artists, technicians and producers of Michael Cacoyannis Foundation, before and following the performances, the MCF Coffee | Bar | Resto hosts, as a natural space, a theater-bar performance with extraordinary interest.

Sofia Filippidou directs the play “The Green Lemon” of Meti Karatza, with the company “5 for the moment”.

What does a mojito, a hooded-man and Lela Karayanni have in common? The answer to that question comes with “The Green Lemon” which takes place in natural space, in other words, a bar and specifically at MCF Coffee | Bar | Resto.

The plot synopsis:
During a night that Athens is in flames by protesting incidents, following a mass demonstration, a civil-servant, a mother dressed like Emo along with her daughter who is a student… and a weird known-unknown hooded man find hideaway into a Bar. There, along with the bartender, trying to hide guilty secrets, they will act parts of the absurd-theater as well as the farce!!! Through satiric and comical situations, the human existence is being illustrated while truths for relationships, politics as well as for Greece of nowadays are being unveiled

Sofia’s Filippidou note:
The “green lemon” of Meti Karatza is a truly Greek play, brand new, that brings out something of the smells of the post-war decade’s Greek play blossoming, as well as the bitterness of loneliness, that the 30 following years brought since then.

Its five heroes, simple and everyday life characters, “take shelter” into a bar under fear circumstances (Outside Athens is in flames because of a demonstration) and there, they talk about everything or almost everything. They reveal themselves.

The theatrical convention of “necessarily in close contact” functions one more time crucially, unlocking memories, revealing passions, emerging to the surface postponed dreams and expectations, offering finally a desperate perspective to hope.

I worked on that play with great love that I anyways have for theatre and with great joy because I loved it.

I relied on the experienced actors of the company and I moved on to a composition of all types of theatre I know, because I believe that the global theatrical language is just only one and aims to communication through truth and joy of game”.

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